Swift's LandscapeSwift's Landscape argues for a fundamental reevaluation of Jonathan Swift's place in eighteenth-century literary history. Combining history, biography, and literary criticism, Carole Fabricant restores both Swift's life and his writings to their proper landscape - by emphasizing the influence of the author's Irish involvements and environs on his work. |
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Page 155
... depiction of Delville in An Epistle upon an Epistle in many ways represents a comic version of the scornful depictions recurring throughout his prose tracts in which Ireland , revealed as a land of poverty and desolation , is also a ...
... depiction of Delville in An Epistle upon an Epistle in many ways represents a comic version of the scornful depictions recurring throughout his prose tracts in which Ireland , revealed as a land of poverty and desolation , is also a ...
Page 299
... depictions of , 44 , 139-40 , 161-62 Leslie , Robert , depicted by Swift , 139 Letter to a Noble Lord , A ( Burke ) ... depiction of inverted landscape , 11 ; echoes in Swift , 117 , 119 , 151 ; The Garden , 77 Mason , William Monck ...
... depictions of , 44 , 139-40 , 161-62 Leslie , Robert , depicted by Swift , 139 Letter to a Noble Lord , A ( Burke ) ... depiction of inverted landscape , 11 ; echoes in Swift , 117 , 119 , 151 ; The Garden , 77 Mason , William Monck ...
Page 306
... depiction of , in The Examiner , 72 , 114 Tory ministry , Swift's relationship to , and depiction of , 136-37 , 199-203 , 239-40 . See also Bolingbroke , Henry St. John , Viscount ; Oxford , Robert Harley , first Earl of ; Swift ...
... depiction of , in The Examiner , 72 , 114 Tory ministry , Swift's relationship to , and depiction of , 136-37 , 199-203 , 239-40 . See also Bolingbroke , Henry St. John , Viscount ; Oxford , Robert Harley , first Earl of ; Swift ...
Contents
CENTRAL FEATURES OF SWIFTS LANDSCAPE | 24 |
SWIFTS ANTIPASTORAL VISION AND IRELANDS | 55 |
THE SUBVERSION OF THE COUNTRY HOUSE IDEAL | 95 |
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Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-century Britain Shaun Irlam No preview available - 1999 |